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about above video which was also in spanish produced by lincoln project:
August 19, 2020 – As part of the ongoing mission to reach as many voters as possible who have been damaged by the Trump administration, today The Lincoln Project began its Hispanic outreach in Florida and Puerto Rico with a new ad targeting Puerto Ricans.
An estimated 50,000 Puerto Ricans permanently relocated to Florida following Hurricane Maria. Puerto Ricans account for 1.1 million people living in Florida, or roughly 5.6 percent of Florida’s population.
“Trump’s disregard and disrespect towards Puerto Rico and the over 3.5 million American citizens who live there has been heartbreaking and infuriating to watch,” said Mike Madrid, co-founder of The Lincoln Project. “It is unfathomable that after being hit by deadly category 4 Hurricane Maria, which resulted in more than 4,000 lives lost, and then being rocked by 10 killer earthquakes in 6 days, the president irreverently held a photo-op where he tossed paper towels to people who were battered, broken, and starving and then proceeded to block real and substantial aid to our own citizens. It’s time for Puerto Ricans to rise up and evict this monster from the White House.”
The 30-second video that will begin running on FOX News in Florida and Puerto Rico today is the first of many The Lincoln Project will release in collaboration with renowned hispanic ad makers Lionel Sosa and Cesar Martinez-Gomariz, specifically targeting hispanic voters.
August 19, 2020 – Despite months of civil unrest, an economic crisis, and the failed leadership of Donald Trump in a global pandemic, today The Lincoln Project released an ad with a message of hope. The ad reminds voters of the promise of America; a place where dreams come true and the caring that unites us is stronger than the hate that divides us. The ad comes on the third day of the Democratic National Convention and aligns with the day’s theme of “A More Perfect Union.”
“America is not perfect, but even at our worst, we are still the land of hope, opportunity, and perseverance,” said Reed Galen, co-founder of The Lincoln Project. “We are a nation of people who rise to meet challenges. When we fail, we get up and try again. We didn’t let aggression deter us in World War II. We didn’t let Al-Qaeda crush our spirit after 9⁄11. This year, we are not going to let the most corrupt, divisive, morally weak president in the nation’s history continue to destroy our nation. We will unite against this enemy, too, and will defeat him in November.”
craig, that was very nice of him; but if he makes one of his barn burner speeches with everyone virtually cheering and clapping and standing in tearful ovation, how’s she gonna top it?
They dismantled 2 machines at the Grand Rapids post office and they started on a 3rd one, before they stopped. The ones they dismantled had the wires removed from them, I think. They will no longer work. I went up north yesterday. I saw a few Biden signs, but mostly Trump signs up north, as expected. On Sunday, I saw a guy wearing a t-shirt with Trump’s picture on it. The t-shirt’s caption read: Does this ass make my t-shirt look fat? LOL!
Corey – I heard a piece on NPR today in which it was reported that the plan to dismantle equipment and send it to the graveyard, not replacing it as a cost-cutting measure, has been months in the making and it is just coincidental that the long-planned event began at this moment when we have a new Post Master General and a raging debate on the benefits of voting by mail. Yeah, right!!! I wonder has any journalistic organization made a public records request for all communications between Mr. T, his office, staff, campaign and post office personnel?
They took the electrical components out of the machines , making them unusable. The head of the West Michigan postal workers union said these changes are not GOOD changes.
the young woman was 22 and has stated that C Linton was a “perfect gentleman”. Clinton may have been a dog at times but it was with the adult and willing. No the usual HOP paid and paraded don’t count.
And what happened to the ME TOO? How can they let such garage take the stage and now his wife follows that has supported and allowed this to happen. NO CREDIBILITY With AMERICANS
Ping Pong
4 years ago
Craig,
If this is how the island is it will remain an island.
I wish you all the best
Fairwell
You have always been able to disagree but not to be offensive particularly with “whataboutism”. Trump is a hazard to the nation. GOP can go back to being same in opposition once he is gone.
I am truly loving this virtual convention ….. so much smoother when you can go from one to another without the lull, or break, in action while people get on/off a stage. There of course is something to be said for the in-person convention. I will admit, of course, that it is awfully exciting to be in the convention hall while all this is happening. But this is so much more “business-like” and enjoyable. This may be the way of the future!!
President Pelosi, if we can rid ourselves of tRUMPence ASAP.
As for the mail, maybe a Go Fund Me to pay them to sort it by hand. Deliver it by pony express, if that’s what it takes.
I think community organizers will figure out a way to get folks to the polls (got ALL DAY to stand in line with no jobs) or take them to ballot drop offs for mail-in.
I hope Billie Eyelash gets the kids to the polls for the first time.
This is a substance over form convention. I like it. Aside from wishing the roll all had been more exciting (except for the cows and calamari), I do like this better. PBS not doing a great job tonight, though.
I respectfully disagree :
1. We’re all bright educated grownups, and can handle repub opining and questioning.
2. Mr Ping going all Jonestown hilarious. Tonight, Mr P’s offensive, pushing right past the “pee report” without acknowledging it, was nothing short of breath-taking in its brass-faced ignore-ance.
There. I’ve wrot my piece. So, shoot me.
Never been to a political convention, but I can do the drunk part at home.
And I don’t give a flying shit what anyone says about Hillary, she’s smarter and has more class than Ivanka (daddy’s little girl), Melanoma (Lardius’ supermodel), Kimberly Guilfoil (Daddy’s little boy’s latest fling) and Lara (daddy’s other little boy’s balls) combined.
I am a member of the Joe Biden For Florida Facebook group. Someone just posted that there are 640,000 registered Democrats in Broward county, compared to only 250,000 registered Repub’s. …… CRAIG, could that be true?
Someone else posted “If you missed Michelle’s brilliant speech, don’t worry. You’ll be able to see Melania deliver it at the Republican National Convention.” hahahah
POGO: I graduated from The University of Alabama (ROLL TIDE!!) in 1976. I went to Alabama my 1st 2 years, did my junior year at Auburn (had a boyfriend there, lots of high school friends from my part of bama went there, it was a fun year) but wanted to graduate from Alabama so went back there for my sr year.
MJ, I was at Bama from ‘70-74 (BA) ‘74-76 (MA), 76-84 working for Student Services – Counseling, Advising and. Resources Center – and working (casually) toward a PhD in Counselor Ed (only got to the ABD). My sis was an Interior Design Ba ‘76. We should have an offline T-town chat. Ever go to Nick’s in the Sticks? Ever go to University Cycle?
POGO: I lived in Mary Burke Dorm 72-74; was an accounting major; was the official statistician for the baseball team in 74 and 76; and spent a LOT of time in the student union basement shooting pool. I went to Nick’s a time or 2 … don’t remember University Cycle.
Sad tweet. Maine farmer went to pick up delayed shipment of chicks. All 800 were dead. USPS has been delivering chicks to rural residents since 1918. Not this year. Industry is being destroyed thanks to DeJoy.
MJ. I played a bit of pool at Ferguson Center and I spent a shitload of time in the Ferguson Center cafeteria drinking coffee and racing my buds to finish newspaper crosswords. Ever take Econ from Pat Raines? (My only brush with the business college)
MJ, Mary Burke East or West? We lived a block apart in 74-76. I lived in an apartment on 11th Street and Hackberry Lane overlooking the football practice Field. Small world or what?
POGO: I think my side was Mary Burke West. The other side was the boys side, and occupied by the boys on sports scholarships who weren’t basketball or football …. tennis, gymnastics, swimmers, baseball players. My sr year I lived in an apartment and for the life of me can’t remember where it was!!
Kamala is showing that combo of legal training and practice before a jury and political rhetorical speaking that we’ve seen in those like Clinton and Obama. It don’ get much better than this.
Poobah, shows incredible confidence in her, doesn’t it? This would be a barn burner at a convention. Without that setting it is merely an exceptional speech. I think I’ll vote for Joe if just to get her as VP.
I’ll be honest, the first hour tonight I was having difficulty getting engaged. Of course I was coming home from a long day at the office and was trying to figure my way through a very difficult case that I have a hearing on tomorrow morning. But after I settled down and had dinner and a glass of wine and relaxed, Hillary, Obama and Then Kamala grabbed me by the throat and pulled me in. I really don’t need banners, Straw hats and drunk people screaming their brains out To bring home the gravity of the situation.
Post office slow down is also hurting cash flow at businesses. Much of ours is electronic (EFT), but some businesses still pay us by check. I’ve started checking postmarks. Nine days. That’s not normal. tRUMP’s boy, DeJoy, is hurting businesses during an economic disaster.
Someone needs to check tRUMP for a UTI, because that will cause delusions about conspiracies in the elderly. Too many toxins.
Dolly Parton is the largest employer in Sevier County, TN. When the wildfires ravaged that area, she sent everyone displaced by the fires $1000 a month until they got back on their feet and a lump sum of $5000 when it was over.
q-anon should warn people that Bill Gates and George Soros control the world through the brain waves emitted by eye glasses, hearing aids, dental fillings, bridges and dentures, and artificial hips and knees.
Lizzie!
Vote Trump- feel exactly the same in four years as you do right now
about above video which was also in spanish produced by lincoln project:
also aired today
lincoln project:
today from republican voters against trump group
Interesting. CNN reports Obama got Biden camp to switch order of speakers tonight, recommended Harris go last instead of him.
fox news:
Ex-Pennsylvania GOP Rep. Dent endorses Biden, calls Trump win in Keystone State ‘improbable’
‘I feel that we need to return some sense of normalcy to the function of government’
Cspan your best bet for uninterrupted coverage, starts at 9pm ET
craig, that was very nice of him; but if he makes one of his barn burner speeches with everyone virtually cheering and clapping and standing in tearful ovation, how’s she gonna top it?
PatD, think she can handle it
They dismantled 2 machines at the Grand Rapids post office and they started on a 3rd one, before they stopped. The ones they dismantled had the wires removed from them, I think. They will no longer work. I went up north yesterday. I saw a few Biden signs, but mostly Trump signs up north, as expected. On Sunday, I saw a guy wearing a t-shirt with Trump’s picture on it. The t-shirt’s caption read: Does this ass make my t-shirt look fat? LOL!
Sounds like Obama gonna take a meat cleaver to Trump, so going before Kamala allows her to take the higher road
Bink – Just because I’m excited to hear Warren tonight? Really? I’m excited to hear Kamala, too…and yes, it’s Kamala’s night, not Warrens.
10 minutes to showtime
It does sound as if Obama may be turning into Wolverine to slice and dice Trump😈😠
And SFB won’t even realize it’s happened.
KGC
I was glad to see your post on the previous thread. I hope all will be good. Leave if you feel threatened.
Very cool Obama taking the heat off Kamala to be the attack dog tonight
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/politics/trump-goodyear-cancel-culture/index.html
tRUMP goes after Goodyear tires. Interfering with commerce?
PS – A MAGAt hat is like a white hood and a swastika rolled into one.
Kamala: “Why don’t they want us to vote?”
The message of the convention is save our country – VOTE
Craig
Lujan Grisham for another Hispanic voice
Damn, this gun stuff is huge. Gifford!
Corey – I heard a piece on NPR today in which it was reported that the plan to dismantle equipment and send it to the graveyard, not replacing it as a cost-cutting measure, has been months in the making and it is just coincidental that the long-planned event began at this moment when we have a new Post Master General and a raging debate on the benefits of voting by mail. Yeah, right!!! I wonder has any journalistic organization made a public records request for all communications between Mr. T, his office, staff, campaign and post office personnel?
One word for you Ping: Bullshit
Gabby!
How exactly does one sensor an image?
They took the electrical components out of the machines , making them unusable. The head of the West Michigan postal workers union said these changes are not GOOD changes.
Ping
the young woman was 22 and has stated that C Linton was a “perfect gentleman”. Clinton may have been a dog at times but it was with the adult and willing. No the usual HOP paid and paraded don’t count.
I’m done with your crap Ping. Off the island!
And what happened to the ME TOO? How can they let such garage take the stage and now his wife follows that has supported and allowed this to happen. NO CREDIBILITY With AMERICANS
Craig,
If this is how the island is it will remain an island.
I wish you all the best
Fairwell
Good riddance
GOP
Silence is not an option.
These celebrities make me feel so old. I don’t know any, except John Legend
i was just brainstorming potential Trump campaign slogans, BiD, wasn’t directed at you in any way.
should have closed with a jazzy Trump slogan
Here comes Obama
swore i wouldn’t watch
Oh I guess not. He just narrated a video. Time for the hotshot speakers to get on
Ping
You have always been able to disagree but not to be offensive particularly with “whataboutism”. Trump is a hazard to the nation. GOP can go back to being same in opposition once he is gone.
Same
Fighting with my Kindle self correct
ditto
Craig
You’re amazing. Ping has become a driveby troll. A total troll, you had no choice. He wasn’t stifled here. The guy never presented facts.
Go women!
HILLARY!!!
Why doesn’t Hillary just say it: I told you so
AMEN!! THIS CAN.NOT.BE another “woulda, coulda, shoulda election.”
Hi MJ
I agree, HILLARY
Hillary: “This can’t be another woulda-coulda-shoulda election”
Craig, spot-on, I told you so!
Ha MJ you beat me to it.
Nancy rules!
Nancy has bigger balls than trump.
Nancy: “You have to be prepared to throw a punch, for the children”
I am truly loving this virtual convention ….. so much smoother when you can go from one to another without the lull, or break, in action while people get on/off a stage. There of course is something to be said for the in-person convention. I will admit, of course, that it is awfully exciting to be in the convention hall while all this is happening. But this is so much more “business-like” and enjoyable. This may be the way of the future!!
Nancy and Hillary – each has more class than all the women in the T family put together and multiplied by ten thousand.
Agree MJ. Don’t miss the in person drunk and disorderly delegates
President Pelosi, if we can rid ourselves of tRUMPence ASAP.
As for the mail, maybe a Go Fund Me to pay them to sort it by hand. Deliver it by pony express, if that’s what it takes.
I think community organizers will figure out a way to get folks to the polls (got ALL DAY to stand in line with no jobs) or take them to ballot drop offs for mail-in.
I hope Billie Eyelash gets the kids to the polls for the first time.
Is it OK to say Nancy looks fabulous. Love the elegant dress
Wow, that’s a first. A convention speaker who says “My husband shot me and left me for dead”
This is a substance over form convention. I like it. Aside from wishing the roll all had been more exciting (except for the cows and calamari), I do like this better. PBS not doing a great job tonight, though.
I respectfully disagree :
1. We’re all bright educated grownups, and can handle repub opining and questioning.
2. Mr Ping going all Jonestown hilarious. Tonight, Mr P’s offensive, pushing right past the “pee report” without acknowledging it, was nothing short of breath-taking in its brass-faced ignore-ance.
There. I’ve wrot my piece. So, shoot me.
Fun fact: Law and Order’s Mariska Hargitay is the highest paid actor on TV
Yes, Hillary and Nancy were both in suffragette white.
$9.25 for pack of 25 prepaid postcards. Address them to DeJoy with one word: RESIGN. Money for USPS and you will feel treat doing it
Never been to a political convention, but I can do the drunk part at home.
And I don’t give a flying shit what anyone says about Hillary, she’s smarter and has more class than Ivanka (daddy’s little girl), Melanoma (Lardius’ supermodel), Kimberly Guilfoil (Daddy’s little boy’s latest fling) and Lara (daddy’s other little boy’s balls) combined.
Marissa is even more beautiful and brilliant than her mother who became famous for being a “dumb blond”.
Amen POGO, AMEN!
Jamie, frankly I had no idea Mariska is Jayne Mansfield’s kid. Good start on the heredity front.
MJ, thx. I had a question hanging from last night. Where’d you college?
I’m loving the reach out to women, but how about a quick shout out to the men folk. We’re here too.
I am a member of the Joe Biden For Florida Facebook group. Someone just posted that there are 640,000 registered Democrats in Broward county, compared to only 250,000 registered Repub’s. …… CRAIG, could that be true?
Someone else posted “If you missed Michelle’s brilliant speech, don’t worry. You’ll be able to see Melania deliver it at the Republican National Convention.” hahahah
S
POGO: I graduated from The University of Alabama (ROLL TIDE!!) in 1976. I went to Alabama my 1st 2 years, did my junior year at Auburn (had a boyfriend there, lots of high school friends from my part of bama went there, it was a fun year) but wanted to graduate from Alabama so went back there for my sr year.
I love listening to Liz bash billionaires. Never gets old.
Warren had an Aunt Bea!!! I love that!
CRAIG: I had the thought too that I am loving the focus being on women, and have wondered how this is being perceived by the men watching?
MJ, those numbers sound right to me. Just hope Broward can count the votes
I saw this medal of freedom moment live. So sweet
I will always love Elizabeth Warren. I actually stood up and clapped at the end.
And that’s how you EARN that medal. Not some BS like Rush.
The MAN I LOVE is on now …. everybody pay attention!!
Craig
it’s this 19th and ladies in white
they gave you Grisham. 🙂
Here we go. Obama time
Love the background for his speech.
Go men!
MJ, I was at Bama from ‘70-74 (BA) ‘74-76 (MA), 76-84 working for Student Services – Counseling, Advising and. Resources Center – and working (casually) toward a PhD in Counselor Ed (only got to the ABD). My sis was an Interior Design Ba ‘76. We should have an offline T-town chat. Ever go to Nick’s in the Sticks? Ever go to University Cycle?
Obama: “I did hope that Donald Trump would take the job seriously. … But he never did”
It’s like Obama’s speechwriter can hear what I have been thinking!!
Obama: “Donald Trump didn’t grow into the job because he can’t”
Obama rocks it. Damn I miss him.
Obama: “For eight years Joe was the last one in the room when I made a big decision. He made me a better president”
POGO: I lived in Mary Burke Dorm 72-74; was an accounting major; was the official statistician for the baseball team in 74 and 76; and spent a LOT of time in the student union basement shooting pool. I went to Nick’s a time or 2 … don’t remember University Cycle.
I was just thinking the same thing… man I miss Obama!
Sad tweet. Maine farmer went to pick up delayed shipment of chicks. All 800 were dead. USPS has been delivering chicks to rural residents since 1918. Not this year. Industry is being destroyed thanks to DeJoy.
Great line …. “democracy was never intended to be transactional.”
Obama: “Do not let them take away your power. Do not let them take away your Democracy”
MJ. I played a bit of pool at Ferguson Center and I spent a shitload of time in the Ferguson Center cafeteria drinking coffee and racing my buds to finish newspaper crosswords. Ever take Econ from Pat Raines? (My only brush with the business college)
Obama: “This Administration has shown it will tear this Democracy down if that’s what it takes for them to win”
Obama tearing up. Saving the country is worth it.
Kamala time
WOW. LOVED that intro of Kamala
MJ, Mary Burke East or West? We lived a block apart in 74-76. I lived in an apartment on 11th Street and Hackberry Lane overlooking the football practice Field. Small world or what?
Kamala was my choice behind Biden for the nomination. I think I couldn’t have done better this cycle.
POGO: I think my side was Mary Burke West. The other side was the boys side, and occupied by the boys on sports scholarships who weren’t basketball or football …. tennis, gymnastics, swimmers, baseball players. My sr year I lived in an apartment and for the life of me can’t remember where it was!!
Donny is having an all caps meltdown.
Kamala does a shout out for Hillary
Who is “Donny”?
ooh i like the visual distance “effect”
Kamala: “I know a predator when I see one”
Whoever was worried that she would have a hard job following Obama ….. well …… she has risen to the task.
Kamala: “Donald Trump’s failure of leadership has cost lives and livelihoods”
Kamala is showing that combo of legal training and practice before a jury and political rhetorical speaking that we’ve seen in those like Clinton and Obama. It don’ get much better than this.
Says so much about Obama that he chose to have her follow him
Great closing argument. Bravo Kamala, BRAVO!!! And beautiful pivot to the Beau, Joe connection. Bringing threads together.
Kamala: “We have a president who turns our tragedies into political weapons”
Poobah, shows incredible confidence in her, doesn’t it? This would be a barn burner at a convention. Without that setting it is merely an exceptional speech. I think I’ll vote for Joe if just to get her as VP.
Bink
the itty bitty little boy living in the White House and having a temper tantrum
GREAT SPEECH!!
i skipped dinner tonight because i’m afraid of the grocery store.
Four more years of that, please! Sign me up! Loving this!
Let’s roll
I’ll be honest, the first hour tonight I was having difficulty getting engaged. Of course I was coming home from a long day at the office and was trying to figure my way through a very difficult case that I have a hearing on tomorrow morning. But after I settled down and had dinner and a glass of wine and relaxed, Hillary, Obama and Then Kamala grabbed me by the throat and pulled me in. I really don’t need banners, Straw hats and drunk people screaming their brains out To bring home the gravity of the situation.
Post office slow down is also hurting cash flow at businesses. Much of ours is electronic (EFT), but some businesses still pay us by check. I’ve started checking postmarks. Nine days. That’s not normal. tRUMP’s boy, DeJoy, is hurting businesses during an economic disaster.
Someone needs to check tRUMP for a UTI, because that will cause delusions about conspiracies in the elderly. Too many toxins.
Four More Years of Supply Chain Breakdowns You Didn’t Even Think Were Possible In This Country
Dolly Parton is the largest employer in Sevier County, TN. When the wildfires ravaged that area, she sent everyone displaced by the fires $1000 a month until they got back on their feet and a lump sum of $5000 when it was over.
q-anon should warn people that Bill Gates and George Soros control the world through the brain waves emitted by eye glasses, hearing aids, dental fillings, bridges and dentures, and artificial hips and knees.
Show your patriotism : Take Out Your Teeth !
Make Showers Golden Again
176,432 Americans have died of C19. We’ll reach 180,000 this weekend.
Pro-life, my ass !
Lock Them ALL Up !